Writers Quotes

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)

That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

There was a day when writers actually read, " he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.

Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.

Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.

(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)” -- margaret case harriman

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

America takes her writers too seriously.

You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.